The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEO) plans to look more closely at pay equity and has proposed new requirements for EEO-1 reporting. According the EEOC:

“EEOC proposes to collect pay data by sex, race, and ethnicity by job category from private employers, including federal contractors, with 100 or more employees through the EEO-1 report. Data collected from the proposed EEO-1 will help EEOC and OFCCP better understand the scope of the pay gap and focus enforcement resources on employers that are more likely to be out of compliance with federal laws.”

The EEOC plans to collect and publish the aggregate data to help target potential pay discrimination and to employers promote equal pay in their workplace.

A Jackson Lewis PC Webinar, “Mind the Gap: The Massachusetts’ Act to Establish Pay Equity”, addresses the new EEO requirement and deadlines, and notes that aspects of the reporting may provide difficult for employers, and so should be examined in advance.

Employers should plan for these new reporting requirements to ensure they have all of the necessary data to be reported, and that they can easily access this data. For many employers, the data may be kept in two separate systems. The EEOC suggests employers adjust their systems to make pulling data for two separate systems easier.

The EEOC announcement can be found here.